Today I'm reviewing another @MagellanTVDocs documentary; 'War on Witches'.
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The documentary is about the witch hunt fever of the 16th century, so not Medieval.
Although, like so often, the middle ages seem to be connected to the subject and gets blamed for the burning of witches a lot.
But it was the modern era lot who are to blame!
It is fascinating to hear individual stories of the healers and local wise folk who had been part of life for centuries.
As rational and down to earth as I like to think I am, I will try this curse, draw an eye, stab it & the thief you're looking for will have eye pain!
Some of the objects in the Boscastle Witchcraft museum @witchmuseum are truly terrifying, so much inspiration for horror movies.
It is amazing how King James himself became so obsessed he interrogated Agnes Sampson the healer himself.
Putting staged re-enactments in documentaries is a risky thing to do, after all it only works when done really well.
I think the scenes here look pretty good.
It's still insane to me that people believed for such a long time that torture for confession worked, sadly some still do.
Scotland executed 2500 people for witchcraft, a higher proportion of its population than almost any other European country!
This graph is pretty shocking;
This King James fellow, has he been cancelled yet?
What a nasty piece of work.
The story of Alison Device, of the Pendle witches, is pretty horrific, her poor sister Jennet, 9 years old, giving evidence that resulted in the hanging of her family.
Whatever became of her?
There's a bit about a recent archaeological dig in Cornwall is very exciting.
They've found pits with what appear to be ritual offerings.
That white bit, that's a skinned swan...
This is how scary films begin...
Pins, fabric, human finger nails...
More than 40 of these pits have been found so far, often lined with animal skin.
One is lined with a skinned cat.
The last one dates to... the 1970s...
So it seems that witches have survived all the horrors of their persecution, good for them.
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